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- noun Plural form of
month . - noun obsolete, plurale tantum A woman's
period ; menstrual discharge.
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Examples
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Activists and others lost count of the number of times they were told the review would be completed \ "in weeks, not months\" -- even as months stretched on.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Six months of the Obama administration 2009
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Immediately __ 6 months __ 12 months__ 18 months__
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I'm afriad i'll actually write what i've been thinking these past couple months ... (i have nothing to write within these brackets) * first of all, before i get too deep, here's a re-cap of my life these past couple months*
lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2006
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Thomas Donovan, aged two years two months; admitted for Hooping-cough, with _an affection of the head_ -- _suckled twelve months_.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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Ellen Willoughby, aged nine months, admitted for Meningitis; at present suckled by a woman who has been _delivered one year and nine months_.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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'---- Jackson, residing at ----, aged two years six months, who had been kept _at the breast twenty-two months_, was in a dying state when I was requested to see her.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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CASE I. ---- Wilshire, aged two years seven months, died of '_Water on the brain_,' -- _suckled twelve months_.
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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Again, in Tonga, no person can touch a dead chief without being tabood for ten lunar months, except chiefs, who are only tabood for three, four, or five months, according to the superiority of the dead chief; except again it be the body of Tooitonga [the great divine chief], and then even the greatest chief would be tabood ten months .
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Now locusts live but five months; and therefore, for the decorum of the type, these locusts are said to _hurt men five months and five months_, as if they had lived about five months at _Damascus_, and again about five months at _Bagdad_; in all ten months, or 300 prophetic days, which are years.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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